Teen Booklist

  • Ancient one

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    By Barron, T.A. 

    When an untouched forest of ancient redwoods is discovered on Native American holy grounds in the Oregon wilderness, local loggers see only an opportunity to earn a living, not thinking of the ecological consequences of felling the trees. Anxious to preserve the wilderness, Kate sets off to stop the loggers, but once in the forest, she is catapulted 500 years into the past, where she is caught in a fatal struggle over the very same wilderness.

  • Both sides of time

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    By Cooney, Caroline B. 

    The summer after her senior year, Annie, wishing she could have lived a hundred years ago in a more romantic time, finds herself in the 1890s and it is indeed romantic-- and very painful.

  • Crack in the line

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    By Lawrence, Michael 

    Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia.

  • Found

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    By Haddix, Margaret Peterson 

    When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

  • In the forests of the night

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    By Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia 

    Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.

  • Intertwined

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    By Showalter, Gena 

    Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: one can time travel, one can raise the dead, one can tell the future, and one can possess another human, and then he meets a girl who quiets the voices. (sequel: Unraveled)

  • InuYasha (Graphic novel)

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    By Takahashi, Rumiko 

    After being transported into medieval Japan, Kagome discovers that her destiny links her to a powerful jewel of Four Souls and also to a half man, half dog demon named Inuyasha.

  • Johnny and the bomb

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    By Pratchett, Terry 

    Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England.

  • Leapholes

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    By Grippando, James 

    Middle schooler Ryan is hit by a car and swept into this time-travel thriller. Ryan faces a number of narrow escapes as he learns how to use “leapholes” and law books to travel back in time to meet the people behind the cases that have established precedent for our time.

  • London calling

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    By Bloor, Edward 

    Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940.